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The “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and “Sex and the City” star is the headliner for Wednesday’s “Grammys on the Hill” event, an annual lobbying effort put on by The Recording Academy to educate lawmakers on artistic issues and rights.

“It’s all new for me, man,” Corbett told POLITICO in advance of his Wednesday visit to Capitol Hill. “I generally try to keep my political opinions to myself. I’m one of those actors who doesn’t always want to hear another actor’s opinion about who they want to be president of the United States.”

So it is, then, that his approach to glad-handling politicians is fairly hands off.

“I’m not a strong-handed guy,” Corbett said. “I’m reluctant to go up to people and push them into a corner, but if people want to talk to me about it, I’m open to it, man. I would not make a very good lobbyist, let’s put it that way.”

Corbett’s mostly excited to simply play some tunes (he’s a country musician, too) in a fancy venue like the Rayburn Office Building, “with its big gold columns.” It’s not exactly the kind of room he’s used to.

“It’s going to take up 12 minutes of their time if they can bear it. We’re not going to torture them too much. We just played in Riverside, Calif., to 400 line dancers, all pretty liquored up. This place was just shy of having barbed wire.”

As for the actual issues, Corbett sums his approach up thusly: “Let’s go to Washington and talk to some policy members and policy staff and just remind them that musicians need to make a living, man.”